Eating a healthful diet is an important part of managing heart failure. A low-sodium diet can improve your heart failure.
Tip
The recommended sodium intake each day for an adult who has heart failure is 2,000 milligrams (mg).
An acceptable amount of sodium per serving is 140 mg or less.
Limit only one food a day with more than 400 mg of sodium per serving.
A high-sodium diet can be harmful when you have heart failure. The extra water in your body — due to the extra sodium — makes your heart work harder to pump blood
throughout your body.
One teaspoon of salt contains 2,400 milligrams of sodium. You should limit your sodium to 2,000 milligrams a day.
If you take medicine for high blood pressure, a low-sodium diet may allow the medicine to work better.
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